Beneventan herbal...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Just a quick followup to a message Adam Maclean posted here on 24th 
February 2001, where he mentioned a Beneventan herbal.

Otto Pacht's "Early Italian Nature Studies", Journal of Warburg and 
Courtauld Institute, XIII (1950), pp. 13ff (its British Library shelfmark 
is "Hirsch5726", it took me a little while to find it) mentions a 
Beneventan Herbal, which is possibly/probably the same one. The reference 
given is:-

	Turin, Bibl. Nazionale, MS. K. IV.3 and British Museum Harley MS 5294.

	The Turin MS, destroyed in the fire of 1904, was written in Beneventan
	script in the late 11th Century. See E.A.Lowe "The Beneventan Script",
	Oxford 1914, pp. 19, 369.

.....though I'm sure Frogguy could almost certainly supply numerous more 
recent references on Beneventan than this. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....